Narrative
Themes and Emotions
Vocabulary
Coates
Grab Bag
100

This happens in the 7-11 parking lot when Coates is a kid.

What is another boy pulls a gun on him.

100

What Coates has an unusual amount of access to as a child.

What is books.

100

Dogma

What is unchallenged doctrine?

100

How Cotes refers to Howard University.

What is the Mecca. 

100

What is Coate's current profession?

What is journalist?

200

The war is Coates most interested in.

What is the Civil War.

200

The emotion Coates feels when the news anchor asks him about hope.

What is sadness. 

200

Inscrutable.

What is unable to be understood.

200

Name of Coates' murdered friend.

What is Prince Jones 

200

City where Coates grew up.

What is Baltimore?

300

The reason the Coates family move to New York.

What is Samori's mom got a job there.

300

The concept Coates believes Americans has made into a God

What is democracy.

300

Martial

What is having to do with war.

300

Name of Coates son.

What is Samori?

300

Coates' first name

What is Ta-Nehisi?

400

Subject of a photo Coates sees that makes him want to travel abroad? (Be specific!)

What is painted doors in Paris.

400

How Coates feels looking at the 9/11 destruction? 

What is cold and without sympathy.

400

Where Coates got the title for his book.

What is from a poem by Richard Wright.

400

Famous Civil War battlefield that Coates visits with his son.

What is Gettysburg?

400

Profession of Prince Jones' mom.

What is radiologist?

500

Who Samori is named after

What is a resister of the French Colonizers.

500

The "two heads of the same beast", factors that hamper Coates growth as a child.  (Both begin with "s")

What is streets and school.

500

The Dream

What Coates redefines the American dream as -- the TV ideal of perfect white society.

500

Coates' religion

What is agnostic or atheist?

500

He is Tolstoy of the Zulus.

Who is Tolstoy?